Living where I do. It's very difficult not to travel on GWR.
However, I do notice that the onboard announcements seem to track the screen information, even down to the see it, say it info etc.
Whereas, I'd rather not hear the constant announcements when travelling from St Erth to Plymouth after every station, all twelve of them sometimes and more in the Plymouth suburbs, I do understand the need for the blind and deaf passengers to have accurate information about which station is next and the stations also coming up and the need to accurately know where they are during their journey.
It's not just for fully able-bodied people, but also for those who need either aurally or visually to know where the train is on the journey.
Today, for example, on a simple return journey from St Erth to Truro, the train in both directions halted outside a station due to some signalling problems. There was no instant information given out from the driver that we were halted by a red signal. That took five minutes to be communicated to the passengers. One can only imagine the concern of a blind passenger travelling alone wondering if the train had actually arrived at their destination, and the concerns of a deaf passenger wondering why there was a problem with the train but that there was no information given visually about the problem.
What I'm trying to get at is that on board information has to be really speeded up, not only for fully able-bodied passengers but also for the no so able passengers, who, let's face it, pay the same money for their journey and deserve the same service, especially regarding information about the journey.
